OTM April 20th

On The Media April 20th

In this episode, after talking about magnets and tote bags, Brooke and Glenn talk about Bill O’Reilly’s sexual harassment scandal, and his show being canceled. Bill O’Reilly’s show was one of Fox News’ most famous shows, and now he has been pushed off air, with $25 million. Fox claims is was not a moral problem, but a financial one. Advertising was dropping and contracts were on thin ice. The audience was really not a factor in the decision they claim. Fox is the second most lucrative company on the cable network. They talk about how it doesn't the Bill O’Reilly story, it’s really about how Fox’s direction is shifting. They go on to say that Fox News was responsible to pumping right-wing conspiracy theories in the homes of over One Hundred Million homes for over twenty years, making it responsible for someone like Trump to have a fighting chance to be president of the US.

The next portion of the episode talks about North Korea and the empty threats thrown on either side. While talking about Trump attacking the Middle East two times in the past two weeks, they compare Trump to the Kim Jong Un, being both erratic and hotheaded. The costs and benefits between attacking North Korea aren't lucrative enough for the Trump administration to make a move quite yet. It is too risky to attack because the Trump administration know they can attack us back in a rather successful manner. Although, they come to say that North Korea could not afford such a war, for they would run out of resources. They talk about how we as Americans do not pay attention to things until they become heated up by the media.

They come to China next, how their officials have had a hard time trying to respond to the two wildcards: Trump and Kim Jong Un. The people who live in China are harder to scare than those who live in America, due to the fact that China has had it a lot harder than Americans, where the people in China grew up hungry at times, and Americans have been in a situation where luxury has afforded them this sort of fear from North Korea. They go on talking about Trump, and how he does not understand the World, and how Trump fever and Ivanka fever has brought the Chinese to find more similarities to themselves. They go on to compare Trump and Nixon, claiming both are using the Madman Theory, being erratic and unpredictable, causing uncertainty in the minds Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans. Throwing the steering wheel out of his window, forcing everyone to act rationally knowing that Trump cannot act rationally.

This has been an interesting episode, finding out that Fox is losing its hold in the media, and that Trump has such a hold on other countries such as China and North Korea. Trump has definitely made a huge impact on not following the rules of the game that the countries of the world. What will Trump do when his bluff is called?